Category: Prog Metal

Artist: Iron Attack!
Album: Bullet Blitz ~ 天 孫 降臨 ~
Released: 2016
Country: Japan
Genre: Progressive / Power Metal

HOG is a metal band from Stockholm with Swedish and Danish members. The music of HOG is as heavy as it is relentless – based on bone-crunching, intricate riffs, combining roaring growls with clean vocals.

Artist: Tessellation Shapes
Album: In Different Frames
Year: 2016
Genre: Progressive Rock / Metal / Female Vocal
Country: Germany

Debut album! As guests Damian Wilson (Threshold / Headspace), Irene Jansen (Ayreon / Star One), Paul Glandorf (Arjen Lucassen), Tineke Roseboom (Blaze Bayley), Erik Laan (Silhouette) and Ben Mathot (Epica / Revamp).

Founded in 1997, the progressive metallers from Leipzig now release their seventh studio album.

Heaven’s Cry just released a lyric video for the track “Outcast,” taken off the album of the same name due to drop on June 3rd.

PelleK – the band featuring ex-Damnation Angels vocalist Per Frederik Åsly – issued a 6 minute preview clip (with lyrics) for the upcoming new album “A Marvelous Method of Reclusion.” The album will be available independently in mid-June. A special crowdfunding/pre-order campaign is underway, which you can contribute to at this location. Those who pre-order will receive the album on June 1st.

Artist: Invocation
Album: Atlas
Country: UK
Genre: Progressive Metal

Withem is an up and coming Norwegian progressive metal band, inspired by the likes of Symphony X, Pagan’s Mind, Dream Theater and Circus Maximus. THIS DEBUT CD RELEASE offers varied sonic landscapes for the listener to explore, ranging from guilty-pleasure choruses permeated with memorable vocal hooks, to symphonic epic themes. The unique vocal range of Ole Aleksander Wagenius gives the band a distinctive touch to tackle the overcrowded progressive metal scene.

Year: 2016
Style: Progressive Metal/Heavy Metal
Country: USA